Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" briefly caused a stir Tuesday
night when it suggested that for the second straight night, a
member of the Trump family had lifted lines from a previous work for a
speech to the Republican National Convention.

Part of Donald Trump Jr.'s speech at the convention, the show's
staff said in a tweet, resembled part of a piece in The
American Conservative by F.H. Buckley.

But Buckley told Business Insider that he was, in fact, part of
the speechwriting process.

"I was a speechwriter for this speech," he said in an
email. "So I'm afraid there's no issue here."

Buckley, a law professor at George Mason University, added:
"So there's not a plagiarism issue."

The passage in question served as one of the most memorable from
Donald Jr.'s address Tuesday night.

"Our schools used to be an elevator to the middle class," he said
in the address on the same night that his father, Donald Trump,
was officially named the Republican nominee for president. "Now
they're stalled on the ground floor. They're like Soviet-era
department stores that are run for the benefit of the clerks and
not the customers."

The Trump campaign had spent much of Tuesday attempting to
control the damage from the revelation that parts of the rousing
Monday-night speech given by Melania Trump, Donald Trump's wife,
were lifted from first lady Michelle Obama's
2008 Democratic National Convention address.